Chris Thorn from the School of Education shared this with me this weekend.

It is worthwhile to spend some time looking at these and working to bring our resources up to the level displayed at these resource sites.

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Interesting that scholars of networks and complex systems are already blogging about the response to swine flu. This short summary of the CDC's board approach to modern communication technologies displays an amazing ranges of responses for a government organization:

http://www.iq.harvard.edu/blog/netgov/2009/05/cdc_is_fighting_the_spread_of.html

The CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/ is using several different social media channels http://www.cdc.gov/socialmedia/?s_cid=tw_eh_28 to inform about the swine flu besides the traditional (Web 1.0) channels, such as frequent press briefings http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/press/, general information in audio and video, etc.:

  1. Updates from the H1N1 page haven an RSS feed

     http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/rss/

  2. Frequent updates are spread using Twitter

     http://twitter.com/cdcemergency

  3. Video updates are posted using podcasts

     http://www2a.cdc.gov/podcasts/browse.asp?topic=swine%20flu

  4. Image sharing on the CDCs Flickr site

     http://www.flickr.com/photos/cdc_e-health/sets/72157617255862135/

  5. Buttons

     http://www.cdc.gov/socialmedia/h1n1/buttons.html?s_cid=tw_eh_29

     for your website.

  6. Information sharing on MySpace's e-health page and daily

     strength group http://www.dailystrength.org/groups/cdc

  7. Updates can be shared http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/# using several

     different services (Google Reader, Bookmarks, Delicious, Facebook,

     Digg, etc.).

  8. e-Cards http://www2a.cdc.gov/eCards/index.asp to send by email

     to family members and friends to remind people to wash their hands.